Met Police in 'looking after their own yet again' shocker...

They don't look like frigging baseball bats! And the chick at the rear offside looks like she is carrying a bazooka!! I'm just wondering if the traffic has been stopped specifically for that, as it doesn't look like that Mini is going anywhere!!!

The six officers, including one female officer, are seen driving an unmarked car and are seen in a traffic jam on Meridian Way, in Edmonton. One of the officers shouts, "attack, attack", before all six leap out of the car, carrying a baseball bat and a pick axes handle, and proceed to smash the passenger side window, the windscreen and the passenger door of the Mini being driven by Billinghurst.

No offence to Enfield Crime squad but it's not exactly the upper echelons of law enforcement so psoiibly never actaualy been trained how to do this manouvre properly, the car dosen't even appear to be well blocked in

"Anti-corruption officers found nothing to support any of the so called intelligence which the six officers claimed to have gathered." Not sure attacking cars with baseball bats while wearing home made crime squad jackets then making up lies about why you did it is reasonable even if you do video it and perhaps add your own soundtrack ...

I would have no issue with a proper hard stop with windows put through with batons or torches but these guys seem to have been cowboys .

No report of actual violence to the individual though so the massive slap seems the right outcome . Demote the Sweeney fantasist who thought this was OK .Personally I'd also sack the one who appears to have made up the intelligence if i could not be sure it was true.

I'd make a brilliant copper. I'd be like nasty little brown version of Jack Regan crossed with Gene Hunt. Criminal types throughout the land would fear me so much they'd give up crime and be nice to people.

I'm not quite sure why its relevant. I accept that they were wrong, I accept that the behaviour shouldn't be condoned. What I don't accept is an instant knee jerk reaction that they should be sacked, despite a full investigation which agrees that they were wrong, and the behaviour shouldn't be condoned finding that the appropriate punishment didn't actually involve sacking.

I'm not quite sure why its relevant. I accept that they were wrong, I accept that the behaviour shouldn't be condoned. What I don't accept is an instant knee jerk reaction that they should be sacked, despite a full investigation which agrees that they were wrong, and the behaviour shouldn't be condoned finding that the appropriate punishment didn't actually involve sacking.

What punishment do you think is appropriate? I ask, because as far as I can see, there hasn't been any punishment worthy of the name.

Hora; the police themselves admit those officers went beyond the limits set by their own employers. Limits imposed for good reason; would you appreciate it if coppers dragged you out of your car and gave you a proper beating for a broken rear light or something trivial? No, you wouldn't. Because that would be 'unreasonable force' in that instance. And why guidelines and legal limits are in place. Make sense?

So, it's been deemed they did not use 'reasonable force', according to legal guidelines, so they have been disciplined. The issue here is nothing about the driver of the car, it's about the actions of those officers.

Which in my onion, shooduv been punished by dismissal. Speshly when people are given 5 months in jail for nicking a bottle of water, or posting nonsense on Faceblank....